Harakeke

View this video to find out the properties of harakeke that made it so useful to early Maori?	Use this site from Auckland University to create a mind map outlining at least five different uses of flax.

Te Kawa o Te Marae

What are the different parts of a wharenui? Visit wick_ed to find out. Then draw and label a wharenui in your book.	Select any 3 kowhaiwhai designs. Sketch them and give both their Maori name and English translation.
Use the online ngata dictionary to find three words in your mihi and get the Maori translation. One might be your name.	Use this link in korero maori to create a mind map about mihimihi. Then see if you can add to your own mihi.
What planning and organisation do we have to do before visiting a marae? List three important aspects we need to know or do.	Try a quiz to test your knowledge of Maori vocabulary.
Visit the Maori.org site and then either: sketch and label a wharenui OR make a mind map of a wharenui	List the stages of a powhiri on cards and then test yourself, or a partner, to see if they can sequence the events correctly.
Visit the maori.org site to see if any of the commonly asked questions are similar to your wonderings.	Look at the slideshow of some tukutuku panels, then see if you can design one of your own using graph paper.